Editing playa fields inside of a safecracker form

Question

I'm trying to figure out how to update my playa fields (member_firstname, member_lastname, etc) when they're inside of a safecracker form. All of the non-playa fields update:

{exp:safecracker
limit="1"
channel="business"
return="myfig/dashboard/success" 
datepicker="no"
url_title="{segment_2}"
safecracker_head="no"
error_handling="inline"
use_live_url="no"
author_only="yes"
}
<!--Entry Id: {embed:entry_id} -->
<p>
<label for="member_business_name1">Business Name</label>
{title}
</p>
{exp:playa:children field="contact" status="not closed" limit="1" entry_id="{embed:entry_id}"}
<p>

<label for="member_firstname">Primary Contact First Name</label>
<input type="text" name="member_firstname" id="member_firstname" value="{if member_firstname}{member_firstname}{/if}"/>
</p>
<p>
<label for="member_lastname">Primary Contact Last Name</label>
<input type="text" name="member_lastname" id="member_lastname" value="{if member_lastname}{member_lastname}{/if}"/>
</p>

<p>
<label for="member_job_title">Primary Contact Title</label>
<input type="text" name="member_job_title" id="member_job_title" value="{if member_job_title}{member_job_title}{/if}"/>
</p>
{/exp:playa:children}

Pastie: http://pastie.org/6405829

Any thoughts?

Answer 1

I'm afraid you'll need to build a custom add-on to do this, since you're trying to update more than one channel entry with a single Safecracker submission. (In a single submission you can only create/update a single channel entry's fields - so you could change the related entry that your main entry points to, but not the fields of that related entry itself).

I built Bankcracker to do this for adding new entries, but it currently doesn't handle edits to existing data. However, it might point you in the right direction for creating something yourself. (The key would be to use the safecracker_submit_entry_end extension hook).

Answer 2

Jon, have you tried using {field:contact} in your Safecracker form?